951 private quotes tagged history

“The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.” — Aldous Huxley

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“The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.” — Karl Marx

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“Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Assassination has never changed the history of the world.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“History is more or less bunk.” — Henry Ford

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“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.” — Plato

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“We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.” — Franklin P. Adams

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“The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.” — Richard M. Nixon

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“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.” — C. S. Lewis

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“To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.” — Daisaku Ikeda

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“I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.” — Eddie Izzard

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“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.” — Robert Fulghum

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“Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.” — Augustine Birrell

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“I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.” — John Thune

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“Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.” — Edward Kennedy

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“History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.” — William Morris

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“The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.” — James McGreevey

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“The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights - if need be - with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.” — Lee Myung-bak

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“I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.” — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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“Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.” — Wole Soyinka

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